Rapid7 Vulnerability & Exploit Database

YPOPS 0.6 Buffer Overflow

YPOPS 0.6 Buffer Overflow

Disclosed

09/27/2004

Created

05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in the YPOPS POP3
service.
This is a classic stack buffer overflow for YPOPS version 0.6.
Possibly Affected version 0.5, 0.4.5.1, 0.4.5. Eip point to
jmp ebx opcode in ws_32.dll

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